Combined guide and guard for overfeed wires.



No. 754,529. V PATENTBD MAR. 15, 1904.

' G. M. ZELLERS. I

COMBINED GUIDE AND GUARD' FOR OVERFEED WIRES.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented. March 15,1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CLAUDE M. ZELLERS, CLEVELAND, OHIO.

COMBINE-D GUIDE AND GUARD FOFLOVERFE ED WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,529, dated. March 15, 1904.

Application filed December 7, 1909,.

To all whom it may concern: V

Be it known that I, C AUDE ZELLERs, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Guide and Guard for Overfeed Wires; and I do declare combined guide and guard for overfeed wires in rolling-mills; and the invention consists in means for guiding and guarding the overfeed or loops of wires which run over the same surface and which,if allowed free course, as usual,

are liable to become entangled one with another, and my invention is designed to prevent such entanglement by keeping each wire separate from all the others as well as to save the expense of special labor for keeping the wires free in their overlapping portions, all substantially as shown and described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 is a plan view of a set of rolls and of my improved guide and guard mechanism for the wire loops; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation thereof on line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on line 3/ y, Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a front end elevation of the improvement where the wire enters from the rolls. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on line 2 2, Fig. 3.

As thus shown the device is an independent structure having a width, say, of about eight feet and length in proportion, or as the needs -of the rolls require, and the device iserected in proximity to a set or pair of rolls A, which are provided, as usual, with a series of passes for the wire. The plan of the invention provides for keeping the overfeed or loops of the several wires separate by horizontal substantial divisions of the device, so that they will come one over the other and all have free play within their own area or domain.

To these ends the invention comprises an initial longitudinally subdivided or walled portion B and a compartmented rear portion (1, and said portions B and O constitute, essentially,

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I one structure, but with different functions,

as will appear. Thus the. portion B has as 'many guide channels 1 2 3 4 with side walls 5,,6, 7,and 8 as there are wires to be handled,

and the said walls are high enough to keep any given wire from working over into another channel than its own and at last to guide the Y loop as it forms back into its compartment in portion O. This portion is subdivided or con- 1 3 structed with superposed compartments,(i ndicated by a, ?2, c, and d, respectively.)

Preferably the walls 6, 7 8, and 9 gradually incline toward their respective compartments and then curve and merge with the floor thereof. Each channel inclines from the same plane at the front to its compartment at the rear, and the wall at the inner side of the 1 channel has the same relative height its entire length. With inclined walls and grooves leading to the respective compartments the wire for its corresponding compartment is compelled to travel thereto-and cannot spring or get into the wrong compartment.

It is not expected ordinarily that the wire loops will run back farther than the guard provided therefor, and yet it is best to leave'the rear of the several compartments open to meet a contingency of this kind. In each case the guide-wall runs back tothe floor of the compartment to whichit leads, and the curved lines I), c, and 03 indicate the initial edges of the floors of the corresponding compartments. Furthermore, as guides for the wire loops within the compartments .1 provide dropchecks 10, pivoted in the top of each subdivision and adapted to swing back to pass the wire loops to the rear, but compelling the loop as it is taken up by the receiving-rolls to run behind the said check, thus insuring a direct 1 feed of the wire to its end and preventing possible entanglement of the wire in its compartment. The said compartments are further constructed in width, .each according to the particular passes the. wires take in the rolls, as in this instance the compartment of least width is at the bottom for the wire that takes the innermost passes of the rolls.

Obviously, as usual, a man will stand be tween the rolls to lead the ends of the wires from one roll to the other, after which the several wires work back on their own guides to the proper compartment, and the same man can see that this leading occurs aright, if it be necessary; but once in their compartments the wires cannot need any other or further help than the device itself affords.

A V-shaped wall or inclined portion 15 is provided at the outer wall within each compartment to catch or wedge and prevent re-. bound of the end portion of each wire after it has passed from the .first rolls and cleared the grooves and whipped around check 10. The wire travels quiterapidly in some cases and whipping or vibration of the wire is apt to curl or knot the wire and cause delay or trouble at the rolls.

The wa'lls'at one side of compartmented rear portion Care slotted their full'length more or less, as "at 16, to allow the introduction of rods or implements to remove any accumulation or scrap from said compartments. Said slots are preferably arranged'somewhat'above the bottom of-each compartment, as it is essential to retaina side wall to confine the wire in its travel-at this side.

When'the initial loop is formed, the wire is fed into its respective channel and the loop rests and slides upon 'the inner channel-wall, as at 7, if channel 3 is used, and the outer Wall, as at 6, then forms an outer abutment to prevent spreading of the loop and a Wrong lead to the wrong compartment, and said outer wall extends above the inner wall more and more until it is rounded to drop and merge with the floor of the higher. compartment, as compartment (0. i

The bottom of each compartment forms the cover or top of the lower compartment, and

these divisional plates or bottoms re remov' able one after the other if ever. it e deemed necessary to get into one of the compartments.

Thus each bottom or cover plate rests at one side upon' ledges or offset walls of portion C, and which in reality are continuations of thebottom of channels 2, 3, and4, and the other side of each plate is supported by the inclined portions 15, which rest upon the next lower 'plate and which are also removable with the plates. i

What I claim is .1. A combined guide and guard for overfeed wires in rolling-mills, thesame comprising a series of guide-channels at the initial end ofthe device and a series of compartments one above the other in the guard portion of the device for different wires, substantially as described.

2. The device substantially as described comprising a series of open guide-channels for the wire having parallel walls and separate horizontally-disposed covered spaces at the end of said walls to receive the overfeed wires, substantially as described.

3. A device to handle overfeed wires in wirerod mills, the same having a series of horizontally-disposed compartments one above the other to confine and separate the overfeed wires and means to direct the wires to vary ing elevations and into separate compartments, substantially as described.

4. In rolling-mills, a set of rolls having a plurality of passes, a guard having a corresponding series of separate compartments with horizontal division-walls supporting and separating the overfeed wires one above the other, and a lead for each wire from the rolls to said compartments, substantially as described.

5. In a device substantially as described, a series of compartments for separate overfeed Wires and a backwardly-yielding check in each compartment to cause the wire loop to feed in substantial alinement with its pass in the receiving-coil, substantially as described.

'6. The device having a series of compartments one above the other and guides leading to said compartment having gradually-declining walls, substantially as described.

7. In a device as described, a series of compartments to receive the overfeed-wire loops and said compartments having inwardly-inclined portions at one side thereof, thereby preventing vibration or whipping of the wires in the compartments, substantially as described.

8. An overfeed device for rolling-mills comprising several compartments one above the other and separate channels leading to said compartments, each channel having its outer wall extending above the inner Wall, substantially as described.

I 9. In a device to separate overfeed Wires in rolling-mills, the separate compartments one above the other, and an open wall at the-side of the compartments to provide access to said compartments, substantially as described.

10. A device to separate overfeed wires for rolling-mills comprising a series of compartmentsone above the other provided with removable division-covers, substantially as described.-

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

'R. B. MOSER, I (J. A. SELL. 

